Kinnear Back in Six Weeks For Game At Spurs

There is news this morning that the Newcastle United manager Joe Kinnear is hoping to return to management as early as the middle of next month, after recovering from open heart surgery.

Joe Kinnear – coming back for Spurs game on 18th AprilKnowing Joe Kinnear, this should come as no surprise to Newcastle fans, and as long as it’s OK with the doctors, he’s probably better getting involved than stewing on the couch watching the Newcastle games, which is never easy. However it is still a full 6 weeks before he hopes to return.

Joe Kinnear is committed to keeping Newcastle in the Premier league this season, and there are rumors he will be paid £1M if he can keep Newcastle up this season. Certainly that £1M is worth it to Mike Ashley, because relegation would be the nightmare scenario for the club.

The 62-year-old former Wimbledon manager was taken ill before Newcastle’s Premier League game with West Bromwich Albion last month, and Newcastle went onto win that game 3-2, but haven’t won since, and are currently on a terrible streak of results.

Joe Kinnear of course ended up undergoing a triple heart bypass on Friday, 13th February, which was a routine operation, as bypass surgery seems to be these days.

But Joe himself has now admitted he is hoping to return to his management role in April and hopes the trip to White Hart Lane to play Spurs on April 18th is his comeback game.

Newcastle play Stoke City the week before at Stoke, another relegation 6 pointer, and some had thought Joe would try to make that game. But Joe’s health comes first, and it will be about two months since he had his operation, which is the time-frame his doctors had wanted him to rest up.

Joe said today in the Sunday Mirror:

“I am feeling really good and am desperate to get back. I’m hoping I will return for the Spurs game,”

There will be 6 league games left in the season including the Spurs game, and we face tough games against Hull, Arsenal, Chelsea and Stoke City before then – so let’s hope we can pick up some points before Joe returns.

If we are in the bottom three when Joe returns, that cannot be something the doctors would like to see, after Joe has just had open heart surgery. We hope the Newcastle players realize this.

Assistant manager Chris Hughton has taken responsibility of the team since Joe has been away, but Newcastle are in a terrible run of form and have managed just one win in their last 12 games.

Vast improvement will be needed in that record in the final 10 games of the season if Newcastle are to survive in the Premier League this season.

165 comments so far

…it’s not as if we have any better options Batty. It’s him or Hughton/Calderwood. As much as probably 99% of Newcastle fans would have liked – we ain’t getting in a new manager before the end of the season – at least.

Mike Ashley has an aweful lot to answer for if the team are relegated. He’s sold some good players at a profit, brought some good and ssome not so good players in.

He has made a profit in each of the windows ssince he arrived, leaving the squad perilously understaffed and under coached. The replacement manager has himself had to be replaced through ill-health and the men in charge are out of their depth by some margin.

If, through some miracle, the under achieving, uninterested players manage to extricate themselves from the dire position they have got us into, there is a major re-building job to be done over the summer.

Has Ashley got the financial ability to do what needs to be done? More importantly, is he prepared to provide the money the re-build will take????

Graeme – hopefully we will stay up mate, and I’m sure there will be a clear-out. I’d reckon we’d probably bring in around 4m from dead wood – and save a packet in wages This plus the money we have left from the Given/Insomnia/Milner sales, plus the 5-10 MA said he would put in would leave me expectant of around 20-25m to spend, with 3 or 4 players off.

Well this has all but confirmed our fate! Agree with your points Rodzilla that no new management would make a difference, however my confidence in the current structure is all but gone.

You look at all the teams around us and they are showing some grit and fight – agreed the ManU performance was a vast improvement, but looking at the current squad we need a leader in there to whip these boys into shape! And within the current set up i just dont see that. Houghton for all is work is nothing more the a defensive coach – his team choices a questionable and his inteviews offer little encouragement.

Calderwood – from what i remember and have seen offers very little to the step and is again nothing more than a defensive coach.

As for the players – who is taking charge of the situation – granted Bossong has been the find of the season, but at this stage of his career he shouldnt be the one driving the team forward. When the donkey souncess went and Roeder took charge, put considered him the saviour and got us to 7th, however people forget that it was Shearer pulling the team on the pitch and once he got injured he pretty much ran the show and drove us on from the sidelines. This is what we have been missing… Players like Owen, Barton, Butt have their say but they are not leaders. Shay was the only one with some drive and ambition and love for the club as well as commanding respect – we dont have that now.

I know this sounds like a rant and i am 100% behind the club – but like everyone else i just get pissed off that our club and its future is in the hands of someone who currently wouldnt look out of place as an extra on Casualty!!

rodzilla, if we dont go down this season,, he will take us down next,, just bad our board can not see this,,, there is no loyalty in football, he is not just old school but his health is not good either, he will not be able to 100% to our club, and if he could i know its not good enough, GET HIM OUT NOW

…I wouldn’t believe the Mirror if they told me water was wet mate, they’ve probably got a picture oy Beye next to their ‘story’. The ‘big clubs’ are always gona be linked with the best players of ‘smaller’ or under-performing teams; and if they’re big, French and of African descent – well, they’re off to Arsenal obviously.

southerngeodie Nolan will be the leader that the side needs , he has already shown he has the ability to lead . Once he is free from suspension and playing together with a fit Joey Barton and Jonas we will have enough fight in the team to avoid the drop

i know i will get shot down for this but if we stay up i would like to see wise stayhe has made good signings especially with gutierrez and bassong(who i am sure will some day be as good as any 1 past or present) and what he has done for th e academy is amazing and it is still a w.i.p if and when the french academy opens up that will be brilliant for the future of our club i do have some reservations as to whether kinnear is good enough to develop youngsters but so far i think he has done brilliant with enriique who is not just looking to have great potential but also consistent players such as carroll and lualua have looked good though i am not sure how much kinnear had to do with it

As confirmed by Bassong yesterday, he was a Keegan signing. Wise may have been involved in the contract. I wonder how many Wise has scouted and signed and how many were by other members such as Verterse (Know I’ve spelt his name wrong) but maybe he has got some good kids for us

I thought Guthrie and Bassong were both Keegan buys. Coloccini and Gutieres are both good signings but with the Jonas legal stuff they could end up costing 24 million. Add Xisco to that and it seems Wise is not the man to buy first team players.

Thats the point beye, if he is going to be there or anybody else in that postion, whoever the manager is needs to be told from the start.

I’m still against the DoF, not because of it being wise I just think all clubs in England have got on so well without for years. We tried as did Spurs and Westham and is hasn’t worked out for any of us. If it’s not broke, why fix it.

I haven’t posted for a while because I’ve been too depressed about the toon frankly.

It would have taken a genius 10 step programme to get us relegated this season and Ashley has nearly pulled it off now… you have to hand it to him.

I don’t blame him for KK’s exit although ever since then he has been an incumbent and pretty much got everything wrong about running the club.

How is Houghton deputizing for the most serious relegation battle we have been in for 17 years? He lost 5 on the run earlier in the season – is Ashley completely out of his mind?

He is keeping the seat warm for a 63 year old who has now had two major heart scares and won us 4 from 19… is this what we have become? Why on earth is a long-term, experienced manager not appointed now AT ANY COST to galvanise the team into a surviving… worst case – we are relegated we have them to lead the charge for promotion….

who is responsible, who is accountable, who is running this merry-go-round club now???

Jonas is doing my head in – he is running around and getting us nowhere – however Any talk of individual players at the moment is futile – look at houghton’s uncertain, vapid expression to see a club that is going down as it stands.

If it is working with other clubs like wba and reading, will be good to watch to see how it goes. If we can pull it off, would be good to set the trend. I agree with you about the keegan situation when it comes to this. Lets just hope we can get this right

The big problem is no decent manager (sorry Joe) will come to Newcastle knowing Wise is buying the players. For the Dof idea to work you need someone more respected in the position. Imagine if someone respected like Sir Bobby was buying and selling.

Lets face it Wise is a huge thorn in the side of the club. His job puts off managers and his reputation in the north east is likely to put off players.

I can’t imagine any player coming to Newcastle because they want to play for Wise.

health update

I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in February 2017 and completed four months of chemotherapy in late July and will continue to have hormone treatment.

After having various cat scans and a full bone scan recently, I met with the medical oncologist yesterday for a review of my condition.

The cancer in the bones has stabilized and has not spread further, and my PSA count has decreased significantly to being less than 0.1.

I am still recovering from some of the side effects of the chemo treatment - mainly severe fatigue and exhaustion.

Stage 4 cancer is not curable so I will continue to have cat scans and bone scans every four months to ensure the disease is not spreading.

Hopefully, the hormone treatment will keep working for a while yet and then we will switch to some other treatments that have been developed over the last few years.

It is as it is - I accept it - and will do the very best I can under the circumstances.

Ed Harrison

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